Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based VP’ operating in the Mobile space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Andrew Savage
VP Head of Sustainability of Lime
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
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Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
David Feller
VP, New Verticals of Gopuff
Highly analytical operator and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building, leading, innovating & driving hyper-growth for startups. Deep expertise in consumer, ecommerce, marketplace, and food tech businesses. Hands-on knowledge in marketing, product, growth, strategy, BD, M&A, mobile, data, monetization, fundraising, and management. Founder & CEO of Yummly. Utilizing award-winning product & design, cutting-edge growth marketing, and industry-leading data science, Yummly became the #1 global recipe app and digital kitchen platform for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Built Yummly from the ground up to over 25M registered users with a $0 CAC through hyperfocus delighting users and utilizing innovative approaches to growth, product, data, and monetization. Yummly won major awards including designation as an Apple “Essential” app (given to the top ~100 apps), Webby’s, Davey’s, W3 awards, and was nominated as Best Overall App by Google. Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool. Prior to Yummly, GM of a $500M revenue eBay business, and an early member of both Half.com and StumbleUpon (prior to their acquisitions by eBay). I’m an active mentor, advisor, and investor in early-stage and venture-backed companies.
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Pio Schunker
EVP, Global Head Brand Marketing of Samsung Electronics
Pio Schunker is a global integrated brand marketing expert, with a proven track record of unparalleled capability and craft. Schunker, known for his expertise in brand marketing and advertising, has won several distinguished international awards over the course of his career, of which have included two Cannes Marketer of the Year awards (for Coca Cola and Samsung) as well as an Emmy Award for best commercial.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Sang Ahn
Vice President and General Manager, Samsung Pay of Samsung Electronics
Sang Ahn is the VP & General Manager of Samsung Pay, Inc., responsible for driving the business and operations of Samsung’s mobile wallet in the U.S. Sang Ahn has been involved in Samsung Pay from day one by leading the investment and then strategic acquisition of a proprietary technology that became the basis for Samsung Pay’s Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST). Today he leads teams in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York City working closely with Samsung divisions in the U.S. and Korea. Sang Ahn also leads the commercialization of select Samsung services in the identity management, artificial intelligence, mobile commerce, and mobile browser spaces for the U.S. market. He reports to the Global SVP of Services at Samsung Electronics. Previously Sang Ahn was the Managing Director and Head of East Coast Investments for Samsung’s Global Innovation Center (GIC). GIC builds, buys, invests, and partners with innovative startups that can make a strategic impact for Samsung. At Samsung he invested in LoopPay (payments, acquired by Samsung), Automated Insights (language processing, acquired by Vista Equity) and Wevr (software and content for virtual reality). Prior to Samsung, Sang Ahn was a Principal at Dawntreader Ventures (a $300mm venture fund based in New York) where he served as a lead investor and Board Director of companies that have been acquired by leading technology companies such as Google, EMC, VeriSign, and IAC. As an entrepreneur, Sang Ahn was the founder and President of Glenkirk Advisors (technology advisory) and Founder & CEO of AhnWalker Therapeutics (novel drug development). Sang Ahn is a current Board Director of MarketFactory, an emerging financial technology company. Sang Ahn is a husband and father of two daughters and resides in Palo Alto, CA.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Alan Robles
Vice President Retail Design & Development of Samsung Electronics
Over 24 years exploring the relationship between users and their surroundings, Alan’s been creating experience environments for clients and projects of every scale around the world. In his role at Gensler he explores the opportunities found at the fringes of the design practice, searching for the edges of the play space of each design opportunity. As Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and digital media have become a more significant part of the engagement and development of “place”, he’s focused his work on exploring the interplay between content and context. Developing the tools for creating stories in places with special attention to the value those stories help communicate within the experience environment.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Stefan Heuser
Vice President, Operations and Innovation – Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC) of Samsung Electronics
CEO at Siemens Technology-to-Business
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Steve Liu
VP, R&D; Chief-Scientist; Co-Director of Samsung Electronics
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About ACM, IEEE, IEEE, IEEE, McGill University, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Samsung Electronics, TandemLaunch: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jack Ahn
Vice President of Samsung Electronics
Samsung DeX is another notable accomplishment of the dedicated technical minds at Samsung. They’ve tirelessly pursued creating new possibilities for technologies to help users break preconceived notions of what they can and cannot do or how they are “supposed” to use their devices. Jack truly appreciates being part of Samsung DeX. Prior to joining Samsung, Jack focused on delivering mobile and mobility solutions to enterprise customers. At Samsung, Jack is responsible for Knox and Knox related services along with Samsung DeX, Email, Samsung Focus, and Smart Key services. Jack enjoys problem solving with engineers from all walks of life.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Charles Migos
Vice President of Product Design of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Mike Acton
VP DOTS (Data-Oriented Technology Stack) Architecture and Runtime of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Laura Palmer
VP of Sales, Americas and EMEA of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Mike DeLaet
Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships of Scopely
Mike DeLaet is currently the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at Scopely. Prior to Scopely, Mike was the Founder & CEO of Rogue Games, Inc. based in Los Angeles. Prior to Rogue, he was the SVP of WW BD & Licensing at Kabam and SVP of Global Publishing at Glu Mobile.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Eric Ma
Senior Vice President, User Acquisition of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Christina Dunbar
Vice President, Global Talent of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Roland Ligtenberg
Co-Founder and SVP Growth & Innovation of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Reza Olfat
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Rob MacKethan
VP of Insurance of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Fengmin Gong
VP and InfoSec Strategy of Didi
Fengmin Gong is a well-respected cybersecurity technologist with more than 30 years of industry experience. As head of DiDi Labs, Dr. Gong currently drives R&D innovation and strategy for safety, security and user experience on DiDi platforms, and works on developing the next generation of security tools He has held chief scientist and R&D VP roles in a variety of large security corporations, including McAfee and Symantec JV, and served as chief security content strategy officer for FireEye, where he led the development and management of the company’s security initiatives. He is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded several leading security companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Cyphort Inc., and is an angel investor in more than half a dozen startups. Dr. Gong received both his M.S. and D.Sc. in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a graduate of Xi’an Jiaotong University in China where he completed his B.S. in computer organization and architecture, and M.S. in computer science.
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About Didi: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
Aswin Shibu
VP of Sales of MixRank
VP of Sales, MixRank & Mattermark. Ex. Director of Sales, FullContact | Head of Sales, Profoundis | Founder&CEO at Sous Chef.
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About Mattermark, MixRank: MixRank combines robust Mobile App & Web Intelligence with a LiveScan Contacts Engine to Automate Lead Generation
Eoghan Geoghegan
Vice President of Business Development of MomentFeed
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About MomentFeed: MomentFeed is a platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands.
Baoqiu Cui
VP & Chairman of Technical Committee of Xiaomi
In June 2012, he joined Xiaomi and built up the Xiaomi Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Platform team. He has led Xiaomi’s “Cloud Computing-Big Data-Artificial Intelligence” technology development route。He is the chairman of the Group technical committee . Dr. CUI, Baoqiu graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Wuhan University and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Prior to joining Xiaomi, he worked in IBM Silicon Valley Lab, Yahoo! and LinkedIn, working on technology development and management in database, search engine, machine learning, big data, social networking and more.
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About Xiaomi: Xiaomi is an electronics and software company that focuses on mobile devices and technology.
Bryan Ingram
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Semiconductor Division of Broadcom
Bryan Ingram is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Broadcom Wireless Semiconductor Division (WSD). Mr. Ingram served as Chief Operating Officer of Avago Technologies from April 2013 until October 2015. In this role, he led all Avago product development and manufacturing. From 2007 to 2013, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Semiconductor Division where he oversaw the development, production and marketing of Avago RF and wireless components used in handsets, cellular infrastructure and satellite applications. From 2005 to 2007, he was Vice President of WSD. Prior to the founding of Avago from the Agilent Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) in 2005, Mr. Ingram was Vice President and General Manager of the SPG Wireless Semiconductor Division. Mr. Ingram holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Michael E. Hurlston
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Connectivity Products Division of Broadcom
Michael Hurlston is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Communications and Connectivity Division. He is responsible for the company’s mobility products. Prior to his current role, he held senior leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and General Management. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2001, Mr. Hurlston held senior marketing and engineering positions at Oren Semiconductor, Avasem, Integrated Circuit Systems, Micro Power Systems, Exar and IC Works. Mr. Hurlston earned a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of California, Davis.
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About Broadcom, Synaptics: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Boon Chye Ooi
Senior Vice President, Global Operations of Broadcom
Boon Chye Ooi is Senior Vice President, Global Operations at Broadcom, responsible for managing worldwide manufacturing, outsourcing, procurement and logistics, planning and quality programs. He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since January 2009. From November 2003 until 2008, Mr. Ooi was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Xilinx, where he was responsible for all worldwide plant operations, supply chain processes, inventory controls, as well as contract electronic component manufacturers. Prior to Xilinx, Mr. Ooi had a long career at Intel, where he served in a variety of management positions.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Lorenzo Longo
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Physical Layer Products Division of Broadcom
Lorenzo Longo is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Physical Layer Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for the company’s physical interconnect and automotive Ethernet products. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, Mr. Longo served as Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Newport Communications. He also held senior engineering positions at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Newbridge Networks and Bell-Northern Research. Mr. Longo earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University at Ottawa, Canada.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Rob Greer
VP & GM of Broadcom
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Hassan Hussain
Vice President and General Manager, Motion Control Products Division of Broadcom
Hassan Hussain is Vice President and General Manager of the Motion Control Products Division. He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since 2006. He oversees the development, production, marketing and sales of motion control products used in factory, industrial and office automation. Prior to his current role, Mr. Hussain held a variety of management positions within the Optoelectronics and Disk Drive divisions at H-P and Agilent. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Hussain was a Process Engineer at Motorola Semiconductor.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Ed Redmond
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Compute and Connectivity Division of Broadcom
Ed Redmond is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Compute and Connectivity (CCX) division at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for Ethernet controllers, connectivity switches, Knowledge-Based Processors and ARM-based SoCs. Mr. Redmond joined Broadcom in 2010 after serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager at NextWave Wireless, where he led a merchant silicon chipset business unit delivering a leadership 4G wireless solution including a broadcast over WiMax service. Prior to joining NextWave he served in various engineering leadership roles at Intel in both wired and wireless networking, including where he delivered the first several products and customer programs for the launch and subsequent volume ramp of Intel’s Centrino Mobile Technology Wi-Fi modules. Mr. Redmond received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S. in Communications and Digital Signal Processing from Santa Clara University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Rich Nelson
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Set-Top Box and Cable Modem Products Division of Broadcom
Rich Nelson is Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Set-Top Box and Cable Modem Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for driving worldwide set-top box and cable modem strategies to enable services to and throughout the home, with system-on-a-chip solutions targeting end products and end markets. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1995, Mr. Nelson served as a U.S. consumer accounts sales manager at LSI. Mr. Nelson earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Anthony Maslowski
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Broadcom
Anthony Maslowski is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Broadcom. Mr. Maslowski joined Avago, now Broadcom, in 2006 as Vice President of Internal Audit. Prior to that role, Mr. Maslowski served as the Chief Financial Officer for Allegro Manufacturing and before that, he held senior finance management positions at Lam Research and Hitachi Data Systems. Mr. Maslowski holds a B.A. in Business Administration from University of Michigan.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Jim Bland
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Controller Division of Broadcom
Jim Bland is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Data Controller Division at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for silicon solutions for the hard disk drive and custom solid-state drive (SSD) markets. Previously, he was vice president of sales and marketing for the Data Controller Division and Storage Peripherals Division at LSI, with responsibility for marketing and sales of LSI SoCs and preamplifiers to hard disk drive, tape storage and solid-state drive customers. Prior to joining LSI in 2005, Mr. Bland was senior vice president of sales and marketing, as well as a board member, for two European wireless startups, which were subsequently acquired. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Bland was vice president of sales and marketing for Siemens/Infineon HDD business unit based in Munich, Germany. Mr. Bland began his 40-year semiconductor career in operational roles with Intel, Amdahl and Zilog. From 1986 to 1996, he formed a sales representative company concentrating on custom semiconductors for the HDD business.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Greg Fischer
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Carrier Access Products Division of Broadcom
Greg Fischer is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Broadband Carrier Access Products Division. In this role, he is responsible for driving carrier access semiconductor solutions, enabling wireline and wireless broadband services to and throughout the home. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2004, Mr. Fischer served in various executive roles with Conexant Systems, including Vice President of Marketing and Vice President and General Manager of the Video Products Group. Mr. Fischer earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering and an M.B.A from the University of Iowa.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Tom Swinford
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Group of Broadcom
Tom Swinford is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom, responsible for developing and delivering silicon, software and adapters for data center storage solutions to cloud service providers, enterprise customers and embedded OEM systems. Prior to his current role, he was the general manager of the data center solutions group at LSI, responsible for PCIe Flash, hard disk drive and solid state drive adapters and associated software. Prior to joining LSI, Mr. Swinford was the Vice President and General Manager of the Connectivity and Networking Group in Intel’s Data Center Group, providing Ethernet silicon, software, and adapters to data centers, OEMs and embedded customers. Mr. Swinford received a B.A. in mechanical engineering from Washington State University, and an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Mitchell Fields
Vice President and General Manager, Fiber Optics Products Division of Broadcom
Mitchell Fields is Vice President and General Manager of the Broadcom Fiber Optics Products Division (FOPD). In this role, Dr. Fields leads the business unit responsible for developing and manufacturing devices used in optical communications including lasers, detectors, integrated circuits, planar light circuits and diffractive optics. He has been at Avago Technologies, now Broadcom, for more than 10 years and has held various positions that include Field Applications Engineering, Strategic Marketing, and, most recently, Senior Director of Marketing for FOPD. Prior to joining Avago, Dr. Fields was an optical engineer at Sycamore Networks, architecting and designing optical interconnect solutions for the SN16000 core optical switch. Earlier, he was a staff scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he was Chief Scientist of the Advanced Concepts Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. Dr. Fields received his B.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Fatt Lun Ho
Vice President and General Manager, Optoelectronic Products Division of Broadcom
Fatt Lun Ho is Vice President and General Manager of the Optoelectronic Products Division at Broadcom. In this role, He oversees the overall development, marketing and sales of LED lighting products used in industrial, automotive and consumer applications. Based in Singapore, Mr. Ho began his career in 1977 as a Product Line Manager and has held a variety of management positions across several different product lines at H-P/Agilent/Avago. Most notably, he served as Manufacturing Manager from 1985 to 1998, and was SPG’s Operations Manager for many years until assuming his current position in 2008.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Patrick Henderson
Vice President and Co-General Manager, Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division of Broadcom
Patrick Henderson is Vice President, General Manager and Co-Leader of the Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division, responsible for growing share and revenue in the high volume Mixed Signal ASIC market. Prior to his current role at Broadcom, he served in sales roles of increasing responsibility up to Senior Vice President of America Sales. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1998, Mr. Henderson held a variety of sales and marketing leadership positions at Integrated Device Technology and National Semiconductor. Mr. Henderson earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Ah-Chee Neo
Vice President, Worldwide Quality of Broadcom
Ah-Chee Neo is Vice President of Worldwide Quality, responsible for product quality across all Broadcom business divisions. Mr. Neo was instrumental in establishing the quality system, product compliance and in-depth failure analysis and reliability lab capabilities at Avago. Neo joined Avago, now Broadcom, as part of the spin-out from Agilent. Previously, Neo was the quality manager for Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group and Quality Director for Singapore. Prior to joining Agilent, Neo worked at Bell Labs, AT&T and Lucent in various supply chain and quality roles for the company’s Asia Pacific region.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Bob Mantz
Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis of Broadcom
Bob Mantz is Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. He joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition in May 2014. Previously, he held positions as Vice President Financial Planning and Analysis, Business Unit and Operations Controller for LSI. Prior to that, he was vice president, Business Unit and Operations Controller for the Semiconductor Solutions Group, supporting LSI’s Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Mantz joined LSI as part of the company’s merger with Agere Systems in April 2007. Before joining LSI, Mr. Mantz worked at Agere Systems as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis, BU and Operations Controllership. He has held various financial planning, business unit and operational controllership roles during his career with AT&T Microelectronics, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. Mr. Mantz holds a B.B.A. in Finance from Stetson University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Frank Ostojic
Senior Vice President and General Manager, ASIC Products Division of Broadcom
Frank Ostojic is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the ASIC Product Division (APD). He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since 2007. In this role, he is responsible for product strategy that enables APD to grow in market share and revenue in the Networking and Data Center ASIC market. He is also responsible for the development of IP design that enables APD to be the leader in SerDes-based ASICs. Mr. Ostojic came to Avago as a design engineer for computer ICs in 1996 through a series of acquisitions and roles with H-P and then Agilent. Mr. Ostojic has held a variety of senior research and development, and marketing management positions. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Sally Doherty
Vice President and General Manager, PreAmp Components Division of Broadcom
Sally Doherty is Vice President and General Manager of the Preamp Components Division at Broadcom. In this role, Dr. Doherty leads the business unit responsible for developing analog and mixed signal products and technologies for storage markets. Dr. Doherty joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition where she served as Vice President of Research and Development for the Storage Peripherals Division. In that role, she was responsible for product development, silicon germanium technology development and led the LSI global expansion strategy in China. Since 2009, Dr. Doherty has been an inside Director for Silicon Manufacturing Partners Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. Before joining LSI, Dr. Doherty worked at Lucent Technologies and its spinoff, Agere Systems, in a variety of engineering and management roles. Dr. Doherty received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Dan Fisher
VP and GM, Data Controller of Broadcom
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Ivy Pong
Vice President, Global Taxation of Broadcom
Ivy Pong is the Vice President of Global Taxation, responsible for worldwide tax planning, reporting, compliance, audit and inquiry, and local statutory compliance functions. She has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since September 2008. Prior to joining Avago, Ms. Pong was with KLA-Tencor and Altera, where she was responsible for the International Tax function. Pong started her career in tax with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where she spent seven years serving public high-tech clients. Pong is a senior tax executive with extensive experience in offshore tax structures, development and execution of tax strategies, foreign governmental interactions for tax incentives and rulings, transfer pricing, business restructuring and reorganizations, cash repatriation, improvement to tax processes and controls, and income tax accounting and reporting.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Myles Wakayama
Vice President and Co-General Manager, Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division of Broadcom
Myles Wakayama is Vice President and Co-General Manager of the Mixed Signal ASICs Products Division, responsible for developing Custom Mixed Signal ASICs. Prior to his current role, he held a variety of engineering design and management positions, including Senior Vice President of Central Engineering for all Mixed-Signal/RF and Library IP Development. Prior to joining Broadcom in 1996, Mr. Wakayama held research positions at Toshiba Research and Development Center and Hitachi Central Research Laboratory. Mr. Wakayama earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Mark Terrano
Vice President and General Manager, IP Licensing Division of Broadcom
Mark Terrano is Vice President and General Manager of the Intellectual Property Licensing Division, responsible for all worldwide outbound patent licensing programs. Mr. Terrano has more than 20 years of experience in the protection, licensing, and litigation of intellectual property in various technology areas. Mr. Terrano joined Avago, now Broadcom, through the LSI acquisition, having served as Senior Director and Managing IP Counsel of the LSI IP litigation and licensing team. He joined LSI through its merger with Agere Systems in 2007. Prior to joining Agere in 2006 as a Senior IP Counsel, he was a Senior IP Counsel at Ericsson for eight years, where he was primarily responsible for managing the Ericsson IP litigation in North America. Before that, Mr. Terrano practiced IP litigation with the law firm of Fenwick & West in the Bay Area. He was also an electrical engineer at MCI Telecommunications prior to attending law school. Mr. Terrano holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a J.D. from the Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New Hampshire.
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About Broadcom: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Tim Kimmet
VP Cloud Platform of Walmart Labs
Tim leads the Cloud Computing Platform at Walmart, code-named Strati. This includes common layers such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Platform frameworks and services that support rapid application development at Walmart. The scope of this Platform is to dramatically increase the digital to physical integration of Walmart’s assets including @WalmartLabs Global E-commerce, Stores, Clubs, Distribution Centers and Fulfillment Centers. Tim is responsible for driving many of Walmart’s open source initiatives, including OneOps— a tool that manages continuous lifecycle management for business critical applications for all of Walmart’s properties (digital and physical). Prior to Walmart, Tim built similar platforms at scale for internet companies in Silicon Valley, including Ebay, PayPal and other startups prior.
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About Conscience VC, Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Kevin McIntire
SVP of Engineering of Remind
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About Remind: Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed.
Will Cathcart
Vice President of WhatsApp
Will Cathcart is the vice president of product management at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Prior to that, he served as a product manager at [Google](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google#/entity) from 2006 to 2010. Cathcart holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from [Colgate University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/colgate-university-hamilton#/entity). He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Meta, WhatsApp: WhatsApp is a proprietary, cross-platform, free instant messaging subscription service for smartphones.
Andrew Goodman
Vice President, Content Partnerships of AT&T
Andrew is VP of Content Partnerships for AT&T, where he is responsible for managing content partnerships across traditional and software based pay TV systems, mobile devices, and data bundles. In this role, he balances strategic planning, business development, and product innovation with partner engagement. Most recently, he oversaw AT&T’s partnership with HBO Max, including the go-to-market (GTM) strategy and terms for bundling HBO Max with AT&T’s mobile and broadband assets. His work focuses on expanding the digital entertainment experience through mobile and over the top video initiatives (OTT), multi-screen extensions for subscribers of DIRECTV and U-verse Television (TV Everywhere), and other emerging technologies such as 4K UHD, leading cross functional teams to bring innovative new streaming video products to market. He also oversees AT&T’s relationships with Premium TV Networks (e.g., HBO), SVOD services (e.g. Netflix), and works closely with AT&T and The Chernin Group’s joint venture, Otter Media, focusing on video investments for a digital native audience. Andrew is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology and media industry conferences. Before joining AT&T, Andrew was a Manager in the technology, media, and telecom practice of Deloitte Consulting, where he focused on helping film studios and other large media companies manage the transition from analog to digital. Andrew began his career working in film development for director Robert Zemeckis’s ImageMovers. Andrew received his MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Theater and Political Science from Amherst College.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Christina Sawyer
VP, People Practices of Electronic Arts
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About Astia Angels, Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Christina Sawyer
VP, People Practices of Electronic Arts
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About Astia Angels, Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Mike Blacker
VP, Enterprise Business Development of The Trade Desk
Mike Blacker is the VP of Strategic Business Development at The Trade Desk, a global demand-side-platform in the $5B real-time bidding industry. In his role, Mike prospects for new strategic clients across various industries and works extensively with existing clients to further embed The Trade Desk platform into their business. Mike is an adtech veteran with a string of start-up including Infoseek, CBS SportsLine, Epylon/Accenture, ExpertCity/Citrix, AudienceScience, Feeva, Quova and Neustar. Mike was one of the first to sell online ads back in 1996 and has spent his entire career working in various roles around digital advertising, adtech and ad platforms. Mike graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and lives with his family in Ojai, CA.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Majid Emami
Co-Founder & VP Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
James Hom
Co-Founder & VP Products of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Amir Arbabi
VP Business Development of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Tevye Krynski
VP of Engineering of Migo
Tevye Krynski is the VP of Engineering at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Christian V. Bergmann
Vice President of Partnerships of Migo
Christian V. Bergmann is the VP of partnerships at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Oksana Schwartz
VP Initiative and Program Management of Ultra Mobile
Oksana Schwartz is the VP of Inititiave Management at Ultra Mobile, leading the Initiative Management team to build and support the right products for Ultra’s portfolio of brands including Ultra Mobile, Mint SIM and CampusSIM. Prior to Ultra, Oksana began her career as a software engineer at Intelius, then spent nearly five years at DEFY Media progressing from QA Engineer, to Scrum Master to Senior Product Manager. Oksana has a dual Bachelor of Computer Science and Mathematics from California State University, and is highly trained in Agile Methodology, and has successfully implemented these systems across three Engineering teams throughout her career. Ultra Mobile a nationwide carrier, was named the fastest-growing private company in 2015, winning the coveted top spot on the Inc. 5000, with a 3-year growth of 100,000% and annual revenues of $118 million.
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About Ultra Mobile: Branded mobile carrier offering cost-effective unlimited talk, text and data services in the US market.
Jim Taschetta
SVP, Marketing Strategy & Planning of Visa
As a successful business executive and general manager with 25 years of experience across a combination of blue chip companies and start-ups, Jim Taschetta brings proven marketing, general management and leadership experience to organizations. Jim previously served as the CMO of Bare Escentuals, FreeMonee.com, FRS Healthy Energy and Yodlee.com. Additionally, he served in various executive positions leading brand management and marketing at The Procter & Gamble Co., The Coca- Cola Co. and Visa. Jim has extensive international experience having spent seven years living and working in Latin America while at P&G.
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About iHealth Labs, NexTag, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Terry Angelos
SVP & Global Head, Fintech of Visa
Terry Angelos is the Global Head of Visa’s Fintech team. Terry is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully founded and sold three venture backed companies and is an angel investor and advisor to startups focused in Advertising and Fintech markets. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from WITS University, an SM in Engineering Science from Harvard University, and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About TrialPay, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Colleen Ostrowski
SVP & Treasurer of Visa
Colleen Ostrowski is the SVP & Treasurer at Visa.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Oliver Jenkyn
EVP & Group Executive, North America of Visa
Oliver Jenkyn is Group Executive, North America, with responsibility for Visa’s business in the U.S. and Canada. Previously, Jenkyn was Global Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for Visa. Before joining Visa in 2009, Jenkyn was a Partner at McKinsey & Company in the San Francisco, New York, London and Toronto offices, and a leader of the firm’s North American retail banking practice and global payments practice. At McKinsey, Jenkyn led the firm’s relationship with Visa for five years, which included playing integral roles in Visa’s global restructuring and IPO. Previously, Jenkyn worked in private equity with Bain & Company. Jenkyn holds a B.A. in economics from McGill University, and master’s degrees in business and finance from Harvard University and Queen’s University. Jenkyn sits on the Board of Trustees at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Sam Hamilton
SVP, Technology of Visa
Sam Hamilton is SVP Data at Visa Inc.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Cecilia Frew
SVP, Global Head of Visa Direct Sales of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Andrew Cohen
Vice President – Global Digital Product Marketing of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Chackan Lai
Vice President, Risk Advisory & Innovation of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Tom Purves
Vice President, Product Architecture of Visa
Tom Purves is a Senior Director for Visa Inc. & V.me by Visa checkout product, where he is responsible for developing future of mobile and online form factors for credit and debit cards in the digital world. Previously, Tom was co-creator of Interac Email Money Transfers, used daily by millions of Canadians. Tom is also recognized as an international speaker, conference organizer and community leader in the tech/startup scene.
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About Interac, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Stephanie Ericksen
Senior Vice President, Operational Resilience of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Mike West
Vice President – Business and Government Disbursements of Visa
Mike West serves as vice president of business and government disbursements at Visa.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Simon Hurry
Vice President of Visa
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About Visa, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Joe Ross
VP, Content of theScore
Joe is responsible for theScore’s content strategy and execution, and oversaw the creation of the company’s innovative ‘mobile first’ newsroom. He began his career with theScore Television Network in 2000, and worked in a variety roles including live television hosting, announcing highlights and writing for theScore.com before moving into content development.
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About theScore, theScore: TheScore creates mobile-first sports experiences through real-time news, scores, fantasy information, and alerts.
Brian Hanley
VP, Mobile Advertising of LionShare Media
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About LionShare Media: LionShare Media develops a media distribution platform-as-a-service to harness the power of converging and emerging technologies.
Archana Chattha
Partner and VP of Network of VSC
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About VSC: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Mark Daughters
Co-Founder & VP Operations of Kandji
Founder & Head of Operations of Kandji.
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Greg Burrell
Co-Founder, VP of Clinical Product & Strategy of Carbon Health
Greg is co-founder and Director of Medicine at Carbon Health. He brings to Carbon a long-standing passion for using smart technology to overhaul the health system and improve the quality of care to patients. He has been advising and leading Bay Area healthcare startups for a number of years and most recently served as Director of Content and Clinical Solutions at CareMessage, Inc. Greg received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and maintains a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Eric Johnsen
VP Business Development, Consumer and Enterprise (Fractional) of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Rob Hull
VP Consumer & Network Scouting, Technology, Service & Innovation of BT Global Services
Rob has been in Silicon Valley for 15 years heading up Global Scouting within BT’s External Innovation team whose role is to identify, qualify, then introduce companies with innovative technologies, propositions and business models into the BT Lines of Business. Notable projects include BT Sport on Chromecast, steamed gaming and fixed mobile convergence propositions. Before coming to the US, Rob worked in BT’s Group Strategy Department as well as heading up Marketing and Business Development for one of their global sales sectors, and prior to that held various sales and marketing roles. Rob has a Master’s Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Avnish Chauhan
Co-Founder, EVP, & Chief Technology Officer of Mobileum
Avnish is a co-founder of Roamware and is responsible for the company’s Roaming business, New Business Initiatives and the Mobile Financial Services business. Prior to Roamware, Avnish served as Vice President – Technology Solutions at US Interactive through its acquisition of SoftPlus. At SoftPlus, Avnish held cross-functional responsibilities helping design, build, sell and implement the Cross Roads 2001 award-winning solution across telecom service providers around the globe. Before SoftPlus, Avnish worked at Citicorp Software, where he led technology support teams for some of the projects in CitiGroup. He was also responsible for setting up and leading the Performance and Capacity Planning lab for Citicorp CEEMEA in London. Avnish has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry.
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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.
Bishal Bisht
Senior Vice President of Finance of Mobileum
Bishal Bisht is responsible for Roamware’s Accounting and Finance activities. Prior to Roamware, Bishal was at US Interactive, through its acquisition of SoftPlus. At SoftPlus, Bisht held the position of Financial Controller. Prior to SoftPlus, he served as Financial Controller at Digital Tools. He has over 18 years experience in the technology industry.
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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.
Madhavan Vasudevan
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Mobileum
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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.
Brett Pitts
Executive Vice President, Digital Channels Group, Wells Fargo of clearXchange
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About : clearXchange is a digital payments network that allows its users to send money to anyone with a U.S. bank account.
Shawn Conly
Senior Vice President Marketing of GREE
Shawn Conly is a Vice President, Marketing at GREE.
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About GREE: Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users.
Lincoln Smith
Swyft President & Co-Founder
Lincoln co-founded Lead Creation an Australian B-B digital marketing agency before co-founding Swyft.
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About Swyft: Swyft sells great products from leading brands in strategic high profile locations, serving customers.
Maria Zhang
VP of Engineering of Instagram
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About IDG Capital, Instagram, Social Starts: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Jim Squires
VP, Business & Media of Instagram
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Ted Bronstein
Vice President of Partnerships of Spin
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About Spin: Spin is a stationless electric scooter company that provides dockless mobility systems.
Co-Founder & SVP Products of BlueStacks
Jay Vaishnav was most recently V.P. of Engineering for the Office of the CTO at Intel and has brought several Cloud-based services for consumers and large-scale Enterprise products to market. He arrived at Intel through its acquisition of Solidcore in June 2009. Jay co-founded Solidcore, where he led R&D and Product Development. Prior to Solidcore, Jay was VP of Engineering at Chingari, Inc., an web-based consumer research company. Prior to Chingari, Jay led the foundational effort at Amazon.com for their store’s product catalog. He arrived at Amazon.com through its acquisition of Junglee. At Junglee, Jay was Director of Technology and led the development of the company’s comparison shopping engine.Jay spent nearly 10 years at Tandem Computers as a key architect and technical leader for the NonStop SQL relational database management system. He began his career at ESVEL, a privately held database management startup, which was acquired by Cullinet Software.
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About BlueStacks: BlueStacks is the 2nd largest PC gaming platform in the world focused on bringing together PC gamers and the entire Android gaming library.
Mark Schulze
Co-Founder Clover, VP Business Development of Clover
Mark spent the first half of his career working for sexy consumer Internet and software products (AOL, Digital Cities, Intuit and AltaVista). The second half of his career has been dominated by unsexy enterprise companies — Mark was the first business person at Quantcast and was responsible for establishing their publisher network. He was also instrumental in helping to solidify Quantcast’s reputation in the advertising and publisher universe. More recently at Clover Network, Mark has been responsible for forging relationships with banks, credit card processors, and most importantly with developers. Cloud based, Clover is an open point of sale platform that is open to developers wanting to have tighter integration between their apps and brick and mortar customer experiences.
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About Clover, TSX Entertainment: Clover is a cloud-based open business operating system, powered by Android-based devices.
Amy Leong
Chief Marketing Officer and SVP Mergers and Acquisitions of FormFactor
Amy Leong has been with FormFactor since October 2012. Prior to this, Amy was the VP of Marketing at MicroProbe from April 2010 through the October 2012 closing of FormFactor’s acquisition of MicroProbe. Before joining MicroProbe, Ms. Leong worked at Gartner, Inc. as a Research Director from 2008 to 2010 and covered the ASSP system-on-chip and microcontroller markets. From 2003 to 2008, Ms. Leong worked at FormFactor where she served as Senior Director of Corporate Strategic Marketing and Director of DRAM Product Marketing. Prior to FormFactor, Ms. Leong worked in a variety of semiconductor process engineering and product marketing roles at KLA-Tencor and IBM. Ms. Leong holds an M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About FormFactor: FormFactor is a global leader in advanced wafer probe card technology and design, FormFactor is a mission critical supplier to top
Michael Chang
SVP of Corporate Development of NCSOFT
Michael Chang is SVP Corporate Development for NCSoft West. Michael previously worked at Electronic Arts’ Corporate Development, leading EA’s acquisition / investment activity in F2P mobile and PC gaming, including the acquisitions of Bight Games (developer of The Simpsons: Tapped Out – EA’s most profitable F2P mobile game to date), KlickNation (developer of Heroes of Dragon Age), and ESN (developer of the Battlelog for Battlefield). Prior to EA, Michael worked in the venture capital and private equity industries (Lightspeed Venture Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, Apax Partners). He began his career in investment banking at Jefferies Broadview. Michael is also an angel investor / advisor to several private companies in mobile gaming, including Revenue Sciences, Survios, Pixelberry Studios, Omniata and Playnomics (acquired by Unity Technologies).
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About NCSOFT: NCSOFT is an online, video, and mobile game development company that develops massively multiplayer games.
Jesse Taylor
SVP, Mobile of NCSOFT
Jesse leads the mobile development team. Jesse has more than 27 years of experience in the video game industry, having held leadership positions at companies including Electronic Arts, Sega, Namco, Midway, and Glu Mobile. Most recently at Glu Mobile, Jesse was the senior vice president of game development where he oversaw operations at four studios located in Russia, China, India, and Brazil.
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About NCSOFT: NCSOFT is an online, video, and mobile game development company that develops massively multiplayer games.
Dennis Mink
VP Marketing of Liftoff
Out-of-the-box marketing professional with a passion for building cloud-based products and services. Deep experience with SaaS, mobile and marketing technology. Highly motivated self-starter.
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Michele Rivera
Founder & Vice President, Global Partnerships of HUMBL
Michele Rivera is the Founder and Vice President, Global Partnerships at HUMBL.
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About HUMBL: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Matt Pillar
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Jam City
Matt Pillar is an accomplished executive with more than twenty-five years of experience building, advising, and investing in businesses in Asia and the United States. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at leading mobile gaming company Jam City, formerly SGN Games; Founder and Managing Director at Fire Dragon Enterprises, a global strategic advisory firm; and Senior Fellow with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he teaches a graduate/MBA course on “Doing Business in China/Asia.” In addition to his service on a number of Boards of Directors of consumer-facing media and technology companies over the years, Matt has been a major fundraiser on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of From the Top and on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California. Proficient in Mandarin Chinese, Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in East Asian Studies from Brown University and received a Master in Business Administration degree with Honors from Harvard University, where case studies and lecture material which he co-authored and published have been taught in both the Harvard Business School executive education program and second-year MBA curriculum. He currently writes about China business and strategy at http://www.climbingthegreatwall.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/firedragonllc.
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About Fire Dragon Enterprises, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Robert Zakari
EVP Corporate Development & General Counsel of Jam City
Rob Zakari is EVP of Corporate Development and General Counsel at Jam City, where he helps direct its mergers and acquisitions strategy and advises its executives on critical company priorities. A native of Los Angeles, Rob has held leadership positions at many of its e-commerce companies over the last two decades. Before joining Jam City, he was EVP and General Counsel at e-commerce company The Lucky Group. As founding manager of early-stage venture fund Global Agora, Rob became acting CEO of SUP ATX, guiding its relationships with offshore manufacturers and overseeing its expansion from 2010 to 2012 from a startup to the world’s largest seller of stand-up paddleboards. In 2002, Rob co-founded Zaba Inc. (formerly PeopleData), an online public record search engine that he led as president for seven years until its 2009 acquisition by Intelius. Prior to this, Rob was a VP at early online storage company Xdrive and VP and General Counsel at direct-to-consumer public records reseller US Search before and during its 1999 IPO. A graduate of UCLA and New York Law School, Rob lives in Los Angeles with his family, two Rhodesian Ridgebacks and a BMW motorcycle.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Josh Brooks
Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy and Marketing of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jeremy Horn
Vice President of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jennifer Tyson
Senior Vice President of HappyCo
Jennifer (Llacera) Tyson is the Senior Vice President at HappyCo.
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
